http://www.ffixxed.com
ffiXXed is a collaborative art and design project initiated by Australian artist/designers Kain Picken and Fiona Lau in Berlin, February 2008. Beside making fashion collection, Fiona and Kain are very active in art exhibition world-wide. Today, we are glad to invite this sweet couple to share the experience with us :)
Where did the name ffiXXed come from?
We didn’t really think about it that much to be honest. Someone mentioned to us that it was related to the idea of not having a ‘fixed’ location for our project, which we like. There is also with the shift in the spelling a kind of reference to ideas or meaning not being so fixed.
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Did you ever thought of making your own clothes, own label and own shop when you are young? I believe it’s many fashion designer’s dreams! Today, let’s see how my new friend, Poppy, made her dream come true :)
Poppy Lissiman was founded in 2009, what made you start doing your own brand?
It sounds really clichéd but I started my own label after I couldn’t find certain pieces in the market that I wanted to wear. My mother taught me to sew at a young age so I have always made clothes for myself and occasionally friends, starting my own label just seemed like the most natural thing to do. It has always been a goal to have my own shop one day as well, starting my label would be the first stepping stone to getting my name out there and eventually having my own store.
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For global fashion brands, Brazil is a land of opportunity. Just last year, Diane von Furstenberg, Gucci, LV, Missoni, Chanel and Burberry have made, or are making, investments here, opening stores in major urban centres, São Paulo. Today, we are happy to invite Satiko and Isabel from Sao Paulo to share their own experience with us!
Satiko+Isabel was founded in 2011, what made you start doing your own brand?
Satiko: In 1982 I created mine first brand ROUPAS, together with a partner, we were two designers. In 1999 we split and I created the brand SATIKO. In 2001, my daughter Isabel came to be part of the company and we started designing the collections together.
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http://www.theinjury.com.au
Independent Australian fashion label, Injury, is moody and stylish and is distributed in Australia, New Zealand, USA and Asia. Their clothes are designed to reflect characters. Celebrities like Ronan Keating, Sammi Cheung and Eason Chen are loving them too! Let’s start our interview with them!
Where did the name Injury come from?
When you are being cut and sewn you are in a situation of INJURY same as the fabrics.
Injury was founded in Sydney 2004, what made you start doing your own brand?
Injury begins when the vampire like headshot picture of a friend was turned into graffiti art in 2002 and we called it INJURY, in order to fulfil my own design curiosity, I decided to make it a fashion related label to turn things into a 3 dimensional art form.
With the technology advantages, print becomes more and more sophisticated and well engineered. Digital print taking the role of the traditional screen printing and bring the design to another level of possibilites. I am driven crazy by the vivid color and the shade of the print that overwhelmed the whole body. We would love to share some of the collections we love over the recent years.
Alexander McQueen Spring Summer 2010
Full Collection | Catwalk Video
McQueen SS2010 is a collection telling the story of women morphing into creatures of the deep as the seas slowly reclaimed planet earth. The models wore sculpted dresses, with computerised, digitally-enhanced prints of fantastical fish, snakes, praying mantis, moths, beetles and giant squid.
Distressed metal harnesses, girdles and collars clung, crablike, in the manner of carapaces. Some girls wore dresses in iridescent tulle with waving “fronds”, suggesting cyber-jellyfish; others gleamed in golden, fish-scale ‘armour’ like warrior-mermaids.
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